Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first State papers requiring royal signature arrived from London and were signed by His Majesty. When the Nahlin anchored off Corfu, bemonocled King George II of Greece went aboard, but nothing was seen of his eligible sisters, Princess Irene and Princess Catherine. To happy King Edward VIII was attributed by Yugoslavs this prophecy: "There will be no war. The British people do not want one and the World generally had enough unpleasantness during the last...
...mention of these in the House of Commons recently evoked guffaws, but according to the Foreign Office the obligations of assisting Portugal in case of attack, initiated by British King Henry II and subsequently strengthened by British King Charles II, when he took to wife Portuguese Princess Catherine de Braganza, remain in force. One of these obligations, the Foreign Office gravely announced, is that Britain ''if need be" must go to the aid of Portugal "with a warship carrying at least ten culverins." Culverins were long cannons with peculiar serpent-like adornments much esteemed in the 16th...
...unique tribute to this pair last week newsorgans of Sydney, Australia urged that if the King can not come to the 1938 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of that Commonwealth, he should send the Duke and Duchess of Kent and they should bring with them Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who may some day be England's Queen Elizabeth...
...last week gave a soft, squashy handshake to this array of luncheon guests: His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria; Dictator Mussolini's sons Bruno and Vittorio; His Royal Highness Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and his youngest sister Maria; Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden...
Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes, France. Name: Maria del Pilar...